Coffee reduces risk of death from many health complications

Studying coffee consumption for people in three studies and their health records, the researchers crunched the numbers and this was the conclusion. According to these researchers, you can drink three to five cups of coffee a day and still experience the wondrous benefits of being a caffeine addict!

If you, like me, are microwaving your third cup of coffee and wondering exactly how much coffee is good coffee for you, you’re in luck.

Ming Ding, a doctoral student in the Harvard School of Public Health Department of Nutrition, was the lead author of the study, which was published on Monday in the journal Circulation. Drinking coffee in moderate amounts keeps kidney problems away, may help your heart, keep you alert when need be and plenty of others.

The study of 1100 liver disease patients at the Monash Health Clinic showed that even when other risk factors such as weight, alcohol consumption and smoking were taken into account, coffee was able to reduce the impact of their conditions. “In the whole study population, moderate coffee consumption was associated with reduced risk of death from cardiovascular disease, diabetes, neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, and suicide”, says the report. “I wouldn’t suggest that someone who doesn’t like coffee go out and drink it”. Overall, people who drank 1.1 to 3 cups of coffee per day had a 9 percent lower risk of dying than non-drinkers, while those downing 3.1 to 5 cups per day had a 7 percent lower risk of dying.

Of course this isn’t the first study praising the benefits of coffee.

Coffee is the No. 1 source of antioxidants in the American diet thanks to the compound called chlorogenic acid found in coffee beans, which fights off damage to DNA.

Willet said that the effect isn’t so large that he would recommend coffee to someone who doesn’t care for it, but those people are babies and it’s no great loss if they depart this mortal coil a little sooner, anyway.